elevator shaft
Lift's vertical tunnel
An elevator shaft is the vertical passage in a building through which an elevator car travels.
The shaft runs from the lowest to the highest floor served, containing the car, counterweights, cables or hydraulic mechanisms, and guide rails.
Elevator shafts appear in crime fiction and action movies as sites of danger: He pried open the doors and peered down the dark elevator shaft.
- hoistwayElevator's vertical enclosure
- counterweightBalancing mass in machinery
- guide railsBars directing movement path
- cableHeavy-duty woven line
- pitFruit's hard seed
pulley · escape hatches · freefall · braking system · motor · plunge · sump · interlocks · governor · buffer · long drop · safety mechanism · sheave · void · lift · doors · landing · dark
- skyscraper constructionsteel frame, tower crane, foundation, pile driving, scaffolding
- building partsfacades, wall, door, windows, floor
- elevatorselevators, counterweight, cab, pulley, pulleys
- high-riseshigh-rise, highrise, balconies, floor number, condo tower
- structureshouse, bridge, buildings, dome, building
- shaftsmineshaft, hoistway
elevator shaftcorridor
Enclosed connecting walkway
hallway · tunnel · walkway · passageway · breezeway
elevator shaftstairwell
Enclosed vertical passage for stairs
staircase · stairs · fire stairs · spiral staircase · ladder
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